Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact, the most powerful woman alive, and millions of people as simple as the Rabinsohns depended on her for life, bread and spiritual guidance. She had moved a long way from the grimy Bucharest street where her father had first taught her the stern Old Testament notions of good & evil; she had abandoned the jealous God of her fathers for another faith. She was Ana Rabinsohn Pauker, a Communist, and a key figure in the struggle for the world...
...newspapers. Reporters who can catch him enjoying the luxury of his daily shave at the King Hotel barbershop can occasionally wheedle some news out of him. But he is adept at dodging, and when tracked down is apt to indulge in nothing more informative than a tirade on the evil inherent in the journalistic mind...
...Cannon's final action in Belgrade was to defy the Soviet Union by refusing (along with his British and French colleagues) to attend a cocktail party for the delegates. To the last he was true to the Krshinich method of warding off evil...
...about the only thing the U.S. could smile about was a news picture from Belgrade (see cut). It showed Russia's Andrei Vishinsky in earnest conversation with Yugoslavia's Ales Bebler. The naked lady who turns away from M. Vishinsky with chaste horror is Truth Warding Off Evil, by the Croat sculptor, Frano Krshinich...
...very well for M. Krshihich (an artist and presumably a dreamer) to try to ward off evil by looking the other way; in practice, that method did not work. The U.S. was hopelessly licked in Belgrade because, instead of lighting into evil with fists flying, U.S. Ambassador Cavendish Cannon tended to shrink, like the reticent lady of the statue, from Vishinsky...